Coexistence of familial mediterranean fever and Behçet's disease in Japanese patient

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 799-800

  Matsuda, Masayuki ^a   Nakamura, Akinori ^a   Tsuchiya, Saiko ^a   Yoshida, Takuhiro ^a   Horie, Shiro ^b   Ikeda, Shu Ichi ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Okaya City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beh et's disease; Colchicine; Familial Mediterrenean fever (FMF); MEFV; Thoracoabdominal pain

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; COLCHICINE; CYTOSINE; GLUTAMINE; GUANINE; ISOLEUCINE; METHIONINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; APHTHOUS STOMATITIS; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEVER; GENITAL ULCER; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; JAPAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYALGIA; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PERITONITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURISY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THORAX PAIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ARTHRITIS; BEHCET SYNDROME; COLCHICINE; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 33746381701     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1560     Document Type: Article

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